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1795. [Edwakds, G.]— <^'oiitinne(l. 



or only | shift their Quarters at certain Seasons of the Year. | To which are 

 added, | lieilections on tliat truly admirable and wonder^il Instinct, the | 

 Annual Migration of Birds! | — | By a Naturalist [George EdAvards]. | — | 

 Loudon: | Printed for J. Walker, No. 44, Paternoster-row. | 1795. 8vo. in size, 

 but only 4 11. to a sig. Title-p., pp. v-xv, 1 p. advt., pp. 1-64. 



This is a later issue: orig. cd. 1780. To judfre by the make-up of the copy handled, it may 

 be only other copie.'s of the original, furnished with new title-leaf; for after the title-leaf 

 which is backed l)lank, comes unpaged p. v, then paged p. vi.— The contents' of the treatise 

 are sulKciiutly indicated in the title. Much space is devoted, in particular, to the migration 

 and alleged hibernation of Swallows, the allegat ien being discussed and refuted. The author's 

 eminence, no less than his treatment of the subject, makes this a very notable tract. It has 

 become a rare and valuable book. My copy is copiously annotated by a hand unknown to 

 me : it was presented to me in 1879 by S. S. Haldeman, and contains some msc. of his on the 

 fly-leaf. 

 1795. WARNKr., K. The | History | of the | Isle of Wight, | Military, | EeeU'siastie.al, 

 Civil, & Natural : | — | to which is added | a view of its agriculture. | — | By 

 the Rev. Eichard Warner; | [etc., 1(5 lines.] | — | Southampton. | Printed for 

 T. Cadell, jnu. and W. Davies, (successors | t,. Mr. Cadell) in the Strand, Lon- 

 don ; | and T. Baker, Southampton. | — | MDCCXCV. Ivo). 8vo. pp. i-xiv, 

 1-312 ; 2 leaves of coins ; appendix, pp. 1-14 ; 1 1. errata ; 9 11. index. 



Chap. IV. Of the Ornithology of the Isle of Wight, pp. 225-24G. A considerable account, 

 particularly of the water-fowl. 

 1795. White, G. (Ed. AUcin, J.) A | Naturalist's Calendar, | with | Observations in 

 various branches | of | Natural History; ( extracted from the papers | of the 

 late I Rev. Gilbert White, M. A. | of Selbonrne, Hampshire, | Senior Fellow 

 of Oriel College, Oxford. | — 1 Never before published. | — | London: | ])rinted 

 for B. and J. White, Horace's Head, | Fleet Street. | — | 1795. 1 vol. Sm. 

 8vo or IGmo. pp. i-iv (title and advt., by .J. Aikin), i^p. 5-170, -f 15 11. (con- 

 tents and ads't.), with coloured frontisp. ("a hybrid bird", in other copies 

 said to face p. 65). 



Copy in the Phila. Acad. Library, handled by me. 



"THE Reverend Mr. "White, so agreeably known to the public by his Natural History of 

 Selborne, left behind him a series of yearly books, containing his diurnal observations on the 

 occurrences in the various walks of rural nature, from the year 1768 to- the time of his death 

 in 1793. From these annals he had already extracted all the matter comprised in the work 

 above mentioned, down to the middle of 1787, but several curious fiicts in the preceding num- 

 bers bad not been thus employed; and all the subsequent ones -remained untouched. It was 

 thought a mark of respect duo to his memory, and to the reputation ho had acquired as a 

 faitbful and elegant observer, not to consign.these relicks to neglect. The manuscripts were 

 accordingly put into my hands for the purpose of selecting from them what might seem wor- 

 thy of laying before the public. The present small publication is the fruit of my research. 

 ..." (Editor's advertisement.) 



The '-Calendar" and "Observations" were thus originally printed as a separate book, but 

 Were incorjjorated in many of the subserfuent editions of the Xat. Hist. Ant. Selborne. 



It contains the following bird-matter: "Observations on Birds": pp. 57-91: — Birds in gen- 

 eral— Rooks— Thrushes— Poultry— Hen Partridge— A hybrid Pheasant (frontisp. or opp. p. 

 6o) — Laud Rail — food of the Ring Dove — Hen Harrier — Great Sjieckled Diver, or Loon — Stone 

 Curlew — Smallest Willow Wren — Fern Owl or Goat Sucker — Sand Martins — Swallows, con- 

 gregating, and di.sappearancc of— Wagtails— Wryneck— Grosbeak. This matter comes in 

 the ])art of the book entitled ••Obser%-ations on various jiarts of nature", following the "Cal- 

 endar". 

 1797-1804. Bewick, T. History | of | British Birds. | The Figures engraved on wood 

 byT[liomas]. Bewick. | Vol. I [II]. | Containing the | History and Description 

 of Land [Water] Birds. | Newcastle: | printed by Sol. Hodgson, for Beilby »S: 

 Bewick: sold by them, | and G. G. and J. Robinson, London. | [Price IHs. in 

 Boards.] | 1797 [1804]. 2 vols. 8vo. Vol. I, Land Birds, 1797, pp. i-xxx 

 (title, preface, introduction, contents^, 1-335, figg. 115. Vol. II, Water Birds, 

 1804, pp. , figg. 113. 



I have seen few editions of "Bewick'', and for the titles of mo.st of them, as well as for 

 nearly all that I have to remark respecting them, I am indebted to Prof A. Xewton, in cpist. 



